The Quiet and the Loud shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards 2023
We’re thrilled to announce that The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox has been shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards 2023, in the Young Adult Book Award category!
This award is supported by Griffith Univeristy, the winner taking home $15,000 and awarded to an outstanding work by an Australian writer suitable for young adults 13 to 19 years of age.
Read more about the nominated books here, and stay tuned for the announcement of the winners, live streamed Wednesday, 6 September on Facebook here.
About the book
OUR HOPELESS, HOPEFUL WORLD
A novel about the contours of friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma and love that explores the stories we suppress and the stories we speak – and the healing that comes when we voice the things we’ve kept quiet for so long.
George’s life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George’s past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under.
Everything is a blaring, blazing mess. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George’s world and shot it through with brilliant, dazzling colour, be her calm among the chaos?
‘A writer to be reckoned with’ Kathleen Glasgow